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Mesmerizing Photos From Burning Man 2017

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Black Rock City, the temporary city constructed in the middle of Black Rock Desert every summer in occasion of the world’s craziest and biggest festival: Burning Man.

70,000 gathered in the desert once more this past week for 10 days of full immersion at the annual Burning Man arts and music festival, an event that has been taking place since 1986 and that attracts people from all corners of the globe.

Radical self-expression, music and art are part-and-parcel of the experience, all commanded by the 10 principles of Burning Man, which include radical inclusion, gifting, decommodification, self-reliance, effort, civic responsibility, leaving no trace, participation, and immediacy.

Check out a selection of amazing pictures from the Playa. Each can be sourced to Instagram by the relevant photographer handle in the caption.

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The Black Rock Desert Floods and What They Mean For Burning Man 2017

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Planning to make the yearly trip to Black Rock City this summer?

It is likely you’ve seen videos and sensationalistic headlines claiming that the annual pilgrimage to Burning Man may be canceled this year due to heavy rain falls and resultant floodings.

Local reporters from the Reno Gazette-Journal, a news outlet that is part of the USA Today network, took a trip to Black Rock Desert a couple of months ago to check out the situation and report on the impact it may have on Burning Man. What they found was knee-deep water which they were able to kayak on, a giant mud puddle from the heavy rains that fell in Northern Nevada in January and February of this year. See below for videos and photos of the current scene.

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Premiere: Listen to Horatio’s “Burning Man” out on UNDR the RADR

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From the guitar flourishes in ‘Agua Blanca’ to the rolling bass in ‘CafĂ© Del Sol’ and the acid-flavored arpeggio in “‘Burning Man”’, Horatio‘s fresh EP is as multifarious as it is high-end. Imbued with subtle grooves and solid beats, it’s poised to turn any dance floor into clubber’s paradise.

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The Only Tent You Will Ever Need For Burning Man, And Every Other Camping Festival After

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Ten days of beautiful and unforgettable memories. Ten days of unimaginable art and mesmerizing music. Ten days of new friendships, random encounters and rollercoaster ups-and-downs. Ten days of sunshine, blue skies and sudden dust storms. Ten days of scorching desert heat and ten nights of freezing-cold temperatures.

Burning Man is all of that and more: one of the most extreme festival experiences with changes so acute it’s known to be a ten-day test of the body, the spirit and the mind, which is why people walk away from Burning Man with renewed spirit, newfound purpose and memories to last a lifetime.

How you choose to live Burning Man, or any other camping festival for that matter, can have a large say in how you walk away from the experience. Camping at Burning Man, or other music and arts festivals, doesn’t have to be painful and full of sacrifices. How? With the SHIFTPOD, voted the number one best innovation for Black Rock Desert camping. Awarded several design and materials patents for their award winning products, the SHIFTPOD 2017 line provides more headroom, black out flies, door screens, military grade Kevlar stitching, and new double-sealed seam system for the best weather protection available, no matter the temperature or conditions. Light weight yet heavy duty, the SHIFTPOD is the most reliable shelter for the worst conditions imaginable, no matter whether you use it as a disaster shelter, on extreme camping trips or for you festival needs.

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Watch Red Axes’ Entire Mayan Warrior Burning Man Set [Video]

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Red Axes are one of the hottest names in the house music scene right now, a Tel- Aviv based duo composed of producers and DJs Dori Sadovnik & Niv Arzi. The two began working together as members of a  new-wave/post-punk band called Red Cotton, before allowing their experiences traveling through Europe to inspire an underground psychedelic electronic party series called “Break It!” back in Tel Aviv and, ultimately, the birth of their Red Axes project in 2009.

Since, Sadovnik and Arzi have been churning out release after release, gaining the attention of label-heads and party organizers world over. This past Miami Music Week in March, they played a crowd-favorite set at Damian Lazarus’ Get Lost party — a performance that was talked about for months after by anyone who was lucky enough to witness it.

Their contagious style of DJing and blend of techno, house and disco took them to Burning Man this summer, where they performed in front of thousands halfway through the Burn on the Mayan Warrior cart.

The entire 2 hour set is now available via HD video. Alternatively, you an listen to it through the SoundCloud stream also provided below.

Red Axes – Mayan Warrior – Thursday Night – Burning Man – 2016 from Mayan Warrior on Vimeo.

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Is the Vandalism of White Ocean Camp the Latest Sign of How Much Burning Man Has Changed?

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White Ocean camp at Burning Man

White Ocean camp at Burning Man

Burning Man has always been a gathering that promotes art and community through an emphasis of 10 main principles, including “radical” inclusion, self-reliance and self-expression, as well as community cooperation, civic responsibility, gifting, decommodification, participation, immediacy and leaving no trace.

Yet, over the recent years evidence has arisen proving that luxury, exclusion, limited participation and “VIP behavior” have begun to seep in and find a firm hold at the annual event.

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Check Out Photos of Burning Man’s 747 Jumbo Jet Nightclub

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Burning Man is surely no stranger to impressive art installations, crafty music stages, outstanding music lineups and unique scenescapes. However, this year’s Black Rock City reunion has been featuring a massive and brand-new guest, a full Boeing 747 Jumbo Jet art cart project housing a mobile lookout bar, lounge and even a nightclub.

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Burning Man 2016 Lineups Have Been Announced!

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With Burning Man 2016 just around the corner, the annual Rockstar Librarian’s Music Guide is now out featuring most of the major lineups from the big sound camps!

Maceo Plex, who had to cancel last year due to logistics issues, is set to finally play his debut at the Playa with a special all-night-long b2b2b set alongside DJ Tennis and Rebolledo. Other notable highlights include NU, Thugfucker, Rony Seikaly, Atish, YokoO, Bedouin, Lee Foss, Lauren Lane, Audiofly, Hernan Cattaneo, Behrouz, Visionquest, the Desert Hearts Crew and several sets by Carl Cox just to name a few!

As is always the case, some of the event’s most popular camps such as Robot Heart, Kazbah and Disco Knights will continue to keep things secret until attendees are at Black Rock City. There is no doubt, however, that they will be bringing some of the best and most sought-after acts in techno, house and tech throughout the 10 days of Burning Man.

You can find out out all the details here http://www.rockstarlibrarian.com/

 

Burning Man is Hosting “Where The Sheep Sleep” – A Three-Day Festival in the Netherlands

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Picture courtesy of Burning Man

Picture courtesy of Burning Man

 

Burning Man is making a journey across the pond.

The Nevada-based gathering, which focuses on self-expression, music, art and community, is making a trip across the Atlantic to host “Where The Sheep Sleep.” This new three-day festival will take place in the Netherlands at Veluwe from July 29 through 31, cementing Burning Man’s first endeavor outside of the United States.

In order to attend, festival-goers will need to first  register through the Burning Man NL Facebook group, then apply to obtain their Event Membership. This is a yearly membership and is required in order to gain access to “Where The Sheep Sleep” – when sales go online you will be invited through your registered event member email.

Where the sheep sleep

 

As announced on their website, “The purpose of “Where the Sheep Sleep” is to dream together and create a reality that we won’t forget.”

The World’s Most Unique Festival Locations

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Traena Festival in Norway. Source: Henrik Mundal Andreassen

Traena Festival in Norway. Source: Henrik Mundal Andreassen

In today’s over-saturated music market, we live in a world with more festivals than we can ever dream to attend. It therefore becomes important, when making the all-too-familiar choice of where to travel to next in the pursuit of good music, to focus not only on the acts billed but also on the uniqueness of the experience as provided by the festival surroundings themselves.

Long-running and debuting festivals alike are continuously striving to offer what others can’t: unique locations which in themselves become a selling point for anyone potentially making the trip. From castles to ore mines, idyllic beaches to the desert, we have listed below some of the most unique festival locations in the world. Read more